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Oconee County, South Carolina
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Florence Louise
Jafferson Pike
The friends of Mrs. Florence
Pike, wife of W.C. Pike, regret to learn of her death which occurred
at their home near Oak Grove one day last week. Mrs. Pike had
been suffering with consumption for several months. She was a
member of the Methodist church and was a most estimable woman.
The interment took place in the cemetery of Rock Springs church on
last Thursday.
Died at her home near Walhalla, July 25th,
1907, Mrs. Wm. C. Pike in the forty-ninth year of her age.
Her maiden name was Florence Louise Jafferson, she being the
second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Jafferson of
Walhalla. She was born at Peckham, a suburb of London, England
in the year 1858. As was customary among the English gentry,
she was educated under private governesses and masters, and finished
in a school of young ladies.
In 1870 her parents removed from England to America with their
children, finally settling near Pendleton. She was confirmed
in St. Paul’s Episcopal church at Pendleton in the year 1876, and
lived a consistent member of that church until 1906 when she
transferred her membership to the Bethel Methodist church in order
to be with her husband and children.
In December 1881 she was happily married to William Calhoun Pike
by the Rev. Chris C. Hanckel, in the Episcopal church at
Pendleton. To them were born eight children – Florence,
Edward, Darrell, Ralph, Philip, Glenn, Bryan and Ruth – all of whom,
with her husband, survive her. She also leaves to mourn her
departure her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. Jafferson of Walhalla, and
three sisters, Mrs. J. T. Compton of Fair Play, Mrs. H.M. Whitten of
Anderson, and Mrs. James R. Tribble of Walhalla besides a host of
relatives in England. She was preceded in death about three
years by her brother Morgan A. Jafferson. To the bereaved
husband and family the sympathy of their numerous friends and
connections are offered.
Ever gentle, patient and long-suffering, she was a model wife,
mother and neighbor. Her beautiful life will continue to shed
its influence while time shall last; and she further left, as her
last words, this precious message: “I want to go home, I am
going home. I want you to come too.”
While the days will be long to her loved ones, we know they would
not call her back, for the dear tired, suffering body is at rest,
and the sweet spirit is walking with its Saviour in that city whose
builder and maker is God, and in the house not made with hands she
awaits her earthly loved ones.
“They are gathering homeward from every land,
One by one, one
by one!
As their weary feet touch the shining strand,
One by
one, one by one!
They rest with their Saviour, they wait their
crown,
Their travel-stained garments all laid down;
They wait
the white raiment the Lord shall prepare
For all who the glory
with Him shall share.”
(Keowee Courier: Westminster, SC
July 30, 1907, contributed by Gail Pike grt
grandaughter)
William Calhoun Pike
1858-1923
“His dews drop mutely on the hill;
His cloud above it saileth
still,
Tho’ on its slope men sow and reap,
More softly than
the dew is shed,
Or cloud is floated overhead---
He giveth His
beloved sleep.”
Fell asleep in Jesus, July 10, 1923, William Calhoun Pike.
And of him it could truly be said, “A faithful servant of God has
been called home.”
William C. Pike was born at Pendleton on Sept. 8, 1858, of
English descent his father John Phelps Pike and his grandfather John
Daniel Pike being Englishmen. When William was but a small
child his father was killed in the Civil War, and on his mother,
Mrs. Martha Jane Fitzgerald Pike, devolved the whole responsibility
of rearing her large family of boys and girls. How heavy was
that task only those who have lived through the days of the War and
reconstruction can tell. That she discharged her duties well
is testified to by her neighbors of that time, and better still by
the fine and useful lives of her sons and daughters, who at her
death (June 12, 1896) could indeed “rise up and call her
blessed.”
Of her son, who was her constant help and right hand, we speak
today. The good son becomes the good man, and the light of a
good mother’s life shines again in the world through her son.
On Dec. 21, 1881, he was happily married to Miss Florence Louisa
Jafferson, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Jafferson of Walhalla,
at St. Paul’s Episcopal church at Pendleton, by Rev. W.H.
Hanckel. This union was blessed by genuine harmony and
devotion, so that the home was ever a delightful and pleasant place,
not only for the eight children who were born and grew to manhood
and womanhood beneath its roof, but also to the wide circle of
nieces and nephews, whose greatest pleasure was to visit a while at
“Uncle Will’s and Aunt Florence’s”.
On July 25, 1907, the dear mother of this home was called away to
“her eternal dwelling in the skies” and truly bereaved, the husband
took up the round of life until he should be free to go to her.
In all community and church activities he was always to be
depended upon for help, wise counsel and generous gifts. He
was one of the founders of the Bethel Methodist church at Oak Grove,
and at the time of his death was an acting steward in the
Westminster Methodist church.
Mr. Pike was a quiet and modest, unassuming Christian gentleman,
and wielded a far larger and wider influence for good than he ever
suspected. During his last years of earthly life he suffered
severely, but was ever patient and uncomplaining.
“Safe upon the heavenly shore,
Done with pain forever
more;
Weariness and weakness o’er---
Up yonder!
O, the calm
and quiet rest
On the Saviour’s loving breast---
It is better
than earth’s best
Up yonder!
Storms shall never reach us
there.
No more sorrow, pain or care,
Nor more cross for us to
bear---
Up yonder!
Gain for them that suffered loss,
Crowns
for them that bore a cross,
And a calm for hearts that
toss---
Up yonder!
Never more to know a fear,
Never more to
shed a tear,
Better far than ever here---
Up yonder!
Interment was at Rock Springs Methodist church cemetery, where
the body was laid to rest by the side of his wife. The simple
funeral service in the church was conducted his pastor, Rev. J. S.
Edwards, assisted by Rev. A. W. Barr of Walhalla.
Eight close friends of the family acted as pallbearers. The
profusion of beautiful floral offerings bore silent tribute to the
esteem in which this good man was held. Misses Pearl and Edith
Pike, Ollie Phillips, Rosa Lee, Zaidie Couch and Annie Mae Smith
were wreath bearers.
The deceased leaves to mourn his passing the following:
George R. Pike, Salem and Albert Pike, Central, his brothers; and
the children – Miss Florence Crozier Pike, Westminster; Edward W.
Pike, Greenville; William Darrell Pike, Chiliclothe, Texas;
Ralph M. Pike, Walhalla; Philip J. Pike, Westminster; Glen A. Pike,
Reid, Okla.; Bryan B. Pike, Westminster; and Mrs. F. C. (Ruth) King,
Warrenton, N.C.; also a number of other near and loving relatives
and friends.
All of the children were at his bedside when the end came except
William Darrell Pike of Texas and Mrs. F.C. King of North Carolina,
and to them especial sympathy.
( From the Keowee Courier -
Walhalla, SC July 25, 1923, contributed by Gail Pike )
Carl Bruno Oehmig died
Friday night at 11 o’clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles
F. Hoefer, 100 Main street , Columbia . Mr. Oehmig was born
September 25, 1852 , at Anaberg, Saxony , Germany , and came to this
country in 1875, spending his life from that time in Walhalla,
except for the last year he has been in Columbia . He married
Mrs. Wilhelmina Perry, whose maiden name was Michaelis. She was born
in Germany and came here when six years of age. The children
are: Mrs. Charles F. Hoefer, Mrs. G. G. Pike and C. G. Oehmig, all
of Columbia , and the step-children F. C. Perry and D. H. Perry of
Columbia and Ed C. Perry of Greenville . The funeral will be
held at Walhalla in St. John’s Lutheran church at 11 o’clock
tomorrow morning. [State – 17 Mar. 1917 ; transcribed by Marla
Zwakman] |